Archive for March 12th, 2018

12 March 2018 – With the rainy season approaching in South Sudan, where one in three people has been displaced by more than four years of conflict, a senior United Nations humanitarian official has called for urgent financial support to distribute and preposition life-saving aid supplies.

UNICEF/Holt | Women carry emergency food supplies from a World Food Programme (WFP) helicopter that landed in Thanyang, South Sudan.

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By Matthew Taylor*

JAYAPURA, Indonesia, March 2018 (UNFPA)* – “My daughter used to hide all sorts of things from me,” said Martina, 41, at a support group session in Jayapura, in the far-eastern Indonesian province of West Papua.

By Walid Salem*

The Israeli settler colonial project started in East Jerusalem in early 1967, directly after the beginning of occupation.

During the same period, the Palestinian resistance began as both an armed struggle – as in Gaza mainly from 1967 to 1972 – and a public movement of nonviolent resistance – as in East Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied West Bank.

In addition to settler colonialism, the Israeli project in East Jerusalem has included a combination of belligerent occupation and apartheid policies.

Durame, ETHIOPIA (UNFPA)* – Genet Girma, 31, was a trailblazer in her community. Fifteen years ago, she ran away from home when she learned that her mother planned to have her undergo female genital mutilation (FGM).